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Impressive ... one of the strongest titles in the series to date. Very highly recommended. --MyShelf.com
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August 1939, the last hot days of a perfect English summer - war is now certain, this week, next week ...soon. Lord Edward Corinth, newly married, is determined to spend these last days of peace quietly with Verity in their new house, The Old Vicarage, in the sleepy Sussex village of Rodmell - a honeymoon of sorts. Fight against it as he might, for Edward it turns out to be a busman's holiday. The poet, Byron Gates is bizarrely murdered after the village fete - executed, in fact, his head chopped off on a wooden block - and Edward is asked to investigate. Alas, murder is not yet done with Verity and Edward. For even in the hallowed studios of Broadcasting House, murder dares to rear its ugly head while Verity is being interviewed about her interesting life as a war correspondent. And before she can take up her new foreign posting, reporting on the international crisis for the "New Gazette", there are more deaths, and the intrepid couple embark on one of their most dangerous investigations to date. Praise for David Roberts: 'Roberts just keeps getting better with each book' - "Publishers Weekly". 'Roberts pays meticulous attention to period detail and the result is a really well crafted and charming mystery story' - "Daily Mail". 'This is a witty and meticulous recreation of the class-ridden middle England of the 1930s...a perfect example of golden age mystery traditions with the cobwebs swept away' - "Guardian". 'Roberts has captured brilliantly the light and shade of pre-War Britain under the falling shadow of Nazism. A gripping, richly satisfying whodunit, with finely observed characters, sparkling with insouciance and stinging menace' - Peter James.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read a number of the books in this series and I found this one rather disappointing - it cannot make up its mind if it is a historical novel about the Woolf's or a piece of detective fiction. Alas, it does neither job particularly satisfactorily: the 'plot' is weak and the denouement rushed.
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The outbreak of another World War is weeks away, and Lord Edward Corinth and his new wife, the indubitable journalist Verity Brown (now Lady Edward) are spending the last days of peace in the Sussex village of Rodmell, where they have taken a house, the Old Vicarage, on the advice of their friends. The village is also the home of writer Virginia Woolfe and her husband Leonard, along with a few other creative types, a retired First World War veteran and an impassioned vicar. It's at the annual fete that the obnoxious womaniser poet, Byron Gates, is murdered, in a particularly gruesome beheading, and though Edward tries hard not to get involved, the combination of his own and Verity's natural curiosity will not let him sit aside.
Amongst the investigating of Gates's death, the temporary guardianship of his daughters, deepening their acquaintance with the neighbours and the visits to London to pursue their roles in the forthcoming conflict, which is in the air all around them, particularly in a capital readying itself for raids, the newlyweds soon find the days flying by. Can they solve the murder of Gates and the subsequent linked deaths before the war will tear them apart, perhaps forever?
'Sweet Sorrow' is another good story from this engaging, well-written series. Apparently, this is the last in the series, and if that is the case, you are left to make up your own mind how the characters and those about them fare in the war.
A fitting end to Edward and Verity's stories, if so.
Amongst the investigating of Gates's death, the temporary guardianship of his daughters, deepening their acquaintance with the neighbours and the visits to London to pursue their roles in the forthcoming conflict, which is in the air all around them, particularly in a capital readying itself for raids, the newlyweds soon find the days flying by. Can they solve the murder of Gates and the subsequent linked deaths before the war will tear them apart, perhaps forever?
'Sweet Sorrow' is another good story from this engaging, well-written series. Apparently, this is the last in the series, and if that is the case, you are left to make up your own mind how the characters and those about them fare in the war.
A fitting end to Edward and Verity's stories, if so.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Very engaging characters and fascinating historical detail. You learn all about the atmosphere before WW2 I didn't want the series to end.. Hope for another one soon!
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Dorothy L Sayers must be spinning in her grave !
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August 1939, the last hot days of a perfect English summer - war is now certain, this week, next week ...soon. Read more
August 1939, the last hot days of a perfect English summer - war is now certain, this week, next week ...soon. Read more
Published 20 months ago by fivestarfrankie
very enjoyable.
I enjoyed this book as much as his other books in the serie about Verity and Edward.
Published 20 months ago by Mrs. T. H. Deadman
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